Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

A piece of outer space rock that blasted through the sky above metro Atlanta is now a part of Georgia's Tellus Science Museum ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to ...

How debris from fourth SpaceX launch failure this year fell into Mexico; what is the danger of space debris generally?

Recent examples of space debris landing on Earth have sparked safety concerns on the ground. Space industry experts explain why uncontrolled re-entries could be an accident waiting to happen.

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

The sky is falling: There is a lot of debris in orbit around Earth that sooner or later we will have to contrive a means to go get.

Forbes How To Track The Dead Soviet Lander Falling Back To Earth Soon By Eric Mack Cosmos 482 Likely to Land With a Splash or Distant Crash But with those big caveats in mind, it seems probable ...

Failed Soviet Venus probe is falling back to Earth: When, where Cosmos 482 could land News of Cosmos 482's impending crash landing has been met with questions regarding just precisely when – and ...

Typically, space debris breaks apart and burns up during reentry, with only a small fraction of material reaching the Earth's surface.

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...